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Activist Practice: Methods of Empowerment
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/mu7563
Module code: MU7563 Museums increasing commitment to communities, audiences, and social purposes has led to rapidly changing approaches to practice and new perspectives on what the core work of cultural organisations should be.
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Urine test is breakthrough for high blood pressure patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/urine-test-is-breakthrough-for-high-blood-pressure-patients
A research team including Leicester scientists has shown that a urine test leads to a drop in blood pressure in patients who had been struggling to regularly take their blood pressure lowering tablets.
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Moon may have influenced Stonehenge builders says English Heritage
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/moon-stonehenge
Lunar standstill in 2024 offers rare opportunity to investigate. English Heritage teams up with leading astronomical experts in UK, including the University of Leicester, and USA
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The sweatband: the moral arbiter of our time?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/sweatband
Read the article "The sweatband: the moral arbiter of our time?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Lorna Unwin
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/lorna-unwin
We have learned, with sadness, of the recent passing of Professor Lorna Unwin, who was Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies in the 2000s.
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Rage and Revolution Revisited as a Major Punk Exhibition Hits Leicester This Summer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/punk-rage-revolution
The team behind the successful 2019 Mods: Shaping a Generation exhibition, Soft Touch Arts, Arch Creative and Shaun Knapp, are proud to present Punk: Rage & Revolution. This showcase will begin in Leicester on 27th May ‘23 and run through to 3rd September ‘23.
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The Importance of Authenticity – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/01/05/the-importance-of-authenticity/
Discusses the concept of authenticity in relation to food and alcohol studies scholarship; the role of time, history, the past and temporal categories in analysing authenticity in relation to food and drink
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Scoliosis
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology/scoliosis
One compelling aspect of Shakespeare’s Richard III is his deformity. In the play the king is described as ‘hunchbacked’ and there has been considerable disagreement since whether this is real or a politically motivated invention of his enemies.
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New target could help to reduce symptoms of asthma attacks
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-target-could-help-to-reduce-symptoms-of-asthma-attacks
An international team of researchers including Professors David Lambert from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Chris Brightling from the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation has examined the role of a receptor in the body that...
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Library and Learning Services: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 5
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/page/5/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester